Deberny & Peignot

Fonderie Deberny et Peignot
Defunct
Industry Type foundry
Founded 1923
Defunct 1972
Headquarters France
Key people
Georges Peignot, Charles Peignot, Rémy Peignot

Deberny & Peignot (Fonderie Deberny et Peignot) is a French type foundry, created by the 1923 merger of G. Peignot & Fils foundry and the Laurent & Deberny foundry. It is bought by the Haas Type Foundry (Switzerland) in 1972, which in turn is merged into D. Stempel AG in 1985, then into Linotype GmbH in 1989, and is now part of Monotype Corporation.

Starting in 1925, Deberny & Peignot types were distributed in the United States by Continental Type Founders Association.

Typefaces

These typefaces were produced by Deberny & Peignot:[1]

Univers

Deberny & Peignot's release of "Univers" in 1957 was the first typeface to be manufactured simultaneously as hand-set type, Monotype mechanical type, and photo type, bridging all the technological advances that had developed over the history of typesetting to that time. The company produced twenty-one width and weight variations of "Univers" complete with an innovative numbering system that identified each characteristic, and dispensing with historical names, such as "bold" and "extra bold."

External links

References

  1. Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 2408-249


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